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Missionsquare Retirement

Washington, DCSEC-registered investment adviserCRD 108783

Filed as MISSIONSQUARE RETIREMENT · Legal name International City Management Association Retirement Corporation

Missionsquare Retirement is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Washington, DC, registered since 1983, reporting over $5 billion in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated July 27, 2026.

43 years
registered since 1983
$6,308,216,088
assets under management
1 arrangement
Percentage of assets
2
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Missionsquare Retirement compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Missionsquare Retirement reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management.

Where is Missionsquare Retirement located?

Missionsquare Retirement's principal office is in Washington, DC, according to its Form ADV; the August 2026 filing also lists 1 other office (Schedule D, Section 1.F).

Is Missionsquare Retirement registered with the SEC or a state?

Missionsquare Retirement is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 1983. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 108783.

How much does Missionsquare Retirement manage?

Missionsquare Retirement reports $6,308,216,088 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated July 27, 2026 (91% discretionary).

How have Missionsquare Retirement's assets and staff changed since 2021?

In the Form ADV data for Missionsquare Retirement: Regulatory assets under management: $713,237,766 in the October 2021 data and $6,308,216,088 in the October 2026 data, up 784%. Total employees: 662 in October 2021 and 553 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Missionsquare Retirement serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: individuals (other than high net worth individuals) (40,136); high net worth individuals (390); insurance companies (1).

Which custodians does Missionsquare Retirement use?

Missionsquare Retirement's most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists Vantagetrust Company (affiliated with the firm) as a custodian holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.

Does Missionsquare Retirement report any disciplinary disclosures?

Reports 2 disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11: yes answers to 11.D(2) (another regulator's finding of a violation) and 11.D(4) (another regulator's order in the past ten years). Each question covers the firm and its advisory affiliates, and one event can produce several yes answers. The detail of any item is on the firm's SEC record: https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/108783

Does Missionsquare Retirement state an account minimum?

Its Form ADV Part 2A brochure dated July 27, 2026 says: "There is no minimum account size required to participate in our Guided Pathways Advisory Services."

What changed in Missionsquare Retirement's recent Form ADV filings?

In the August 2026 filing data: Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).

From the Form ADV filing

Every figure below is as the firm filed it with regulators, as of October 2026.

How the firm is compensated

Item 5.E
  • A percentage of assets under your management

Item 5.E lists how the firm is compensated for its advice; Items 5.B, 6.A, and 7.A show whether its people or related companies can also earn commissions. Percentage of assets, fixed, hourly, subscription, and performance-based fees come from clients (a performance-based fee depends on investment results); commissions come with a sale or a trade, often from the company behind the product. How fees, commissions, and other arrangements differ

Fees and minimums

Form ADV Part 2A

The brochure lists different fees for different services or strategies; see the brochure for them.

Account minimum: None

The brochure's wording
There is no minimum account size required to participate in our Guided Pathways Advisory Services.

As stated in the firm's Form ADV Part 2A brochure dated July 27, 2026. Fees can differ by service and may be negotiable; the brochure is the complete statement. Read the brochure on the SEC's IAPD site

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F
$6,308,216,088

$6,308,216,088 as of October 2026, filing dated July 27, 2026.

Discretionary: $5,740,508,954.Non-discretionary: $567,707,134.

A measure of scale, not skill or returns. Discretionary means the firm decides trades; non-discretionary means clients approve each one. What assets under management means

Who the firm serves

Item 5.D
Individuals (other than high net worth individuals)
Clients 40,136 Assets $5,180,032,670 (82%)
High net worth individuals
Clients 390 Assets $560,476,284 (9%)
Insurance companies
Clients 1 Assets $567,707,134 (9%)

A firm with no individual clients is an institutional manager even if it manages billions; the mix tells you whom the practice is built around.

Advisory services

Item 5.G
  • Portfolio management for individuals and/or small businesses
  • Portfolio management for businesses (other than small businesses) or institutional clients

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Legal name
International City Management Association Retirement Corporation
Also doing business as
ICMA RETIREMENT CORPORATION, ICMA-RC
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
1983 (43 years)
Employees
Total: 553. Performing investment advisory functions: 174.
Wrap fee program participation
No.
Custodians (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3))
Vantagetrust Company · affiliated

Custodians holding 10% or more of the firm's separately managed account assets, as filed on Form ADV (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)). A custodian holds client assets; it does not endorse or supervise the firm. AdvisorCensus has no relationship with any custodian.

Other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F)
1 other office, as of the August 2026 filing
Atmore, AL
States registered or notice-filed
53 states or jurisdictions
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SEC-registered investment advisers are examined by the SEC. SEC, state, and exempt registration

Disclosures

Item 11

2 Reports 2 disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11. View on IAPD.

Questions answered yes on this filing

Regulatory matters Items 11.C to 11.G

  • 11.D(2) Has another federal regulator, a state regulator, or a foreign financial regulator ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate was involved in a violation of investment-related regulations or statutes?
  • 11.D(4) In the past ten years, has another federal regulator, a state regulator, or a foreign financial regulator entered an order against the firm or an advisory affiliate in connection with investment-related activity?

Each question covers the firm and its advisory affiliates: its current employees other than clerical staff, its officers, partners, and directors, and anyone who controls the firm or is controlled by it. One event can produce yes answers to several questions. SEC-registered advisers and exempt reporting advisers may leave out events more than ten years old, and may answer 11.A(2) and 11.B(2) for pending charges only. What happened, and who was involved, is on the Disclosure Reporting Pages of the IAPD record. Reading a firm's disclosures

Assets and staff over time

Items 5.A, 5.F
$713M 2021 $773M 2022 $641M 2023 $668M 2024 $5.96B 2025 $6.31B 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$6,308,216,088553July 27, 2026
October 2025$5,959,398,729599July 11, 2025
October 2024$668,171,497623September 9, 2024
October 2023$641,022,740608May 23, 2023
October 2022$772,702,498641September 2, 2022
October 2021$713,237,766662September 10, 2021

Regulatory assets under management: $713,237,766 in the October 2021 data and $6,308,216,088 in the October 2026 data, up 784%.

Total employees: 662 in October 2021 and 553 in October 2026.

As filed in each year's data for the same month. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going; they measure scale, not skill or returns. Most firms update these figures once a year.

Changes in the filing

Last 12 months
  1. August 2026
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
  2. June 2026
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
  3. April 2026
    • Employees performing advisory functions went from 211 to 174.
  4. March 2026
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
  5. February 2026
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
  6. December 2025
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).

Compared month to month from the SEC's monthly adviser data and the state compilation feed. Owners and control persons are summarized, never named.

Websites listed on Form ADV

Item 1.I
icmarc.orginvestments.missionsq.orgmissionsq.orgmissionsquare.comresearch.missionsq.orgslge.orgvantagepointfunds.org

Source: Form ADV, as of October 2026. Values appear as filed; a value the firm did not report is shown as "Not reported."

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